Evaluation of Safety Culture in Institutional Chemical Analytical Laboratories in Oghara  and Warri, Delta State, Nigeria

Birma, Godwin J.; Agaja, S A; Ndu, Joyce C.

doi:10.4236/ojsst.2022.121002

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“…The method employed for this study was the methodology used by Birma et al [8] in their study on safety culture evaluation of laboratories. A total number of 24 bakeries were carefully identified and selected for this study.…”

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The Sanitary Conditions of Bakeries and Food Safety Practices Assessment of Bakers in Tamale Metropolis, Ghana

Lawal

Abubakari

Murtala

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There is a lack of research on the safety of bread in Ghana, although it is one of the foods consumed by most Ghanaians daily. The study, therefore, assessed the sanitary conditions of bakeries in the Tamale Metropolis and further evaluated the food safety practices of bakers in these bakeries. The study employed the use of a questionnaire to collect data in 24 carefully selected bakeries and then the food safety practices of bakers in these bakeries. Results showed that 91.7% of the bakeries had bakers wearing protective gears while working. All (100%) the bakeries were free of domestic animals and a visible presence of insects, rodents or vectors. However, 6(25%) bakeries placed their solid waste containers in the bakery premises. Also, 89.5% of the bakers indicated that they always wash their hands with soap and water before working or handling baking ingredients and materials. All (100%) bakers indicated that they check the expiry dates of their bakery ingredients before using them. 29.8% of the bakers, however, did not make it a practice of refrigerating bakery ingredients that require to be stored in the fridge when not in use. In conclusion, most bakeries had good sanitary conditions and were managed in a manner that ensure food safety. Bakers also exhibited a good level of food safety adherence. Managers should continue to ensure that good sanitary standards are followed and food risk analysis concepts like HACCP are implemented in the bakery to check new and complex food safety threats.

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The Sanitary Conditions of Bakeries and Food Safety Practices Assessment of Bakers in Tamale Metropolis, Ghana

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Abubakari

Murtala

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Exploring Crowdsourced Hard—Acceleration and Braking Event Data for Evaluating Safety Performance of Low-Volume Rural Highways in Iowa

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2023

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There are over four million miles of two-lane roadways across the United States, of which a substantial portion is low-volume roads (LVR). Traditionally, most traffic safety efforts and countermeasures focus on high-volume high-crash urban locations. This is because LVRs cover an extensive area, and the rarity of crashes makes it challenging to use crash data to monitor the safety performance of LVRs regularly. In addition, obtaining up-to-date roadway information, such as pavement or shoulder conditions of an extensive LVR network, can be exceptionally difficult. In recent times, crowdsourced hard-acceleration and braking event data have become commercially available, which can provide precise geolocation information and can be readily acquired from different vendors. The present paper examines the potential use of this data to identify opportunities to monitor the safety of LVRs. This research examined approximately 12 million hard-acceleration and hardbraking events over a 3-months period and 26,743 crashes, including 9373 fatal injuries over the past 5-year period. The study found a moderate correlation between hard acceleration/hard-braking events with historical crash events. This study conducted a hot spot analysis using hard-acceleration/ hard-braking and crash datasets. Hotspot analysis detected spatial clusters of high-risk crash locations and detected 848 common high-risk sites. Finally, this paper proposes a combined ranking scheme that simultaneously considers historical crash events and hard-acceleration/hard-braking events. The research concludes by suggesting that agencies can potentially use the hardacceleration and hard-braking event dataset along with the historical crash dataset to effectively supervise the safety performance of the vast network of LVRs more frequently.

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Evaluation of Safety Culture in Institutional Chemical Analytical Laboratories in Oghara and Warri, Delta State, Nigeria

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The Sanitary Conditions of Bakeries and Food Safety Practices Assessment of Bakers in Tamale Metropolis, Ghana

The Sanitary Conditions of Bakeries and Food Safety Practices Assessment of Bakers in Tamale Metropolis, Ghana

Exploring Crowdsourced Hard—Acceleration and Braking Event Data for Evaluating Safety Performance of Low-Volume Rural Highways in Iowa

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